Åkes Junkyard from the 1950s by StarkUrbex_ on July 16 2021 13:15 hr CE(S)TShortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/emye ]
Finding out the location
very easy
Access
very easy
Safety
safe
Risk of being seen
very high
General condition of the place
bad
Traces of vandalism
many
Good place for taking pictures?
good
Did you see other people?
very many
Visit date July 14 2021 at 14 hr Visit duration 2 hours
In this junkyard you can found about 150 old cars from the 1950s. There should also be parts from an old bomber plane that crashed close by in 1943.
The owner Åke was born 1914. After finishing school, he travelled around working as a farmhand he came here and bought the land in 1935. The area was filled with enriched peat that could give good money at the time as fertilizer used by farmers.
Åke built his own peat factory and a small house to live in and started the peat business. After WWII the car became more common. When your car broke down you just left it on the road, and Åke started to collect these cars to use them for spare parts.
In 1974 Åke bought his last car, but the continued to sell spare parts for many years. In 1992 Åke moves to a retirement home and in 2001 the municipality decided to keep the place as it is.
Today it’s a tourist attraction. We met people from Germany, Finland and Denmark. The cars are very torn down, almost no one of them have their original colour left. The area is swampy and there are black streams around some of the cars that look really polluted. I have read they made a check, and the cars are not doing much damage to nature, but I wonder …
If you want to see a car cemetery in Sweden, I recommend going to this one instead (there are over 1000 cars there): https://www.urbexshare.com/reports.php?l=2389477367&r=8091030046
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car junkjard by dejongh.marc on December 5 2020 20:41 hr CE(S)TShortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/sgmh ]
Finding out the location
very easy
Access
very easy
Safety
very safe
Risk of being seen
very high
General condition of the place
good
Traces of vandalism
many
Good place for taking pictures?
good
Did you see other people?
many
Visit date July 29 2018 at 15 hr Visit duration 1 hour
A car graveyard that has also become a tourist attraction
The place was owned by Ake Danielson (1914-2000), who started as a peat cutter on the terrain
In 1940 he started the car junkyard and kept collecting cars and breaking them for spares until
the late eighties
The car graveyard was closed in 1990 and became a protected site by the town in the late ninities
The old workshop (shed) is closed off because of it's deteriorated condition , but the terrain is open to visitors , it has a small parking space with an information sign telling the history of the place
Some photos are not mine , taken by Marianne
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